Fodder-block



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EMIL F. DIETERIOHS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

FODDER-BLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,257, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed Ar ril 22, 1896. Serial No. 199,811. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern/.

Be it known that I, EMIL F. Dlnrnnrcns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful article of manufacture, which I denominate Bread or Fodder Blocks, and of which the following is a correct specification.

This invention relates to a fodder cake or block intended as a food for live stock, cornposed of cereal refuse from flour-mills, glucose- Works, breweries, distilleries, 850.

The object of the invention is to present such fodder in a clean, nutritive, and palatable form, and one convenient for handling, storage, and transportation.-

I take cornmeal, barley-meal, rye-meal,

wheatshorts, wheat-middlings, and all like Wheat-bran,-oat-bran, oat-dust, cornmeal, finely-chopped hay, 850., which do not possess glutinous properties, I intermix with some proportion of the above-mentioned cereal waste, or rough and cheap products of grinding.

A convenient mode of mixing the ingredients for the food-blocks is to add the salt and salicine to the Water with which the mass is n1oistenedsay one pound salt to five pounds water-and add one to five per cent. of salicylic acid, or itsequivalent in other forms of salicine; but the proportions may be varied, accordingly as it is desired to preserve the fodder for a longeror shorter time, the salt and salicine both acting as preservative agents.

I claim-- A fodder brick or block composed of cer'eal ,Waste and having a proportion of glutinous matter, and containing salt and salicine, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth. Y

EMIL F. DIETERIOHS.

I Witnesses:

O. L. Horzn, HENRY L. WASHBURN. 

